Chaos in Lok Sabha: PM Modi attacks, opposition disrupts

Prime Minister Narendra Modi today attacked the Congress saying the country has been suffering due to the "wrong" policies it has pursued since independence and that the party has spent time singing paeans to one family instead of focusing on people's welfare.

Replying in the Lok Sabha to the motion of thanks on President's address, Modi also criticised the opposition party over bifurcation of Andhra Pradesh, alleging that it did so only for "political" considerations without any preparation for which the people were facing hardships.

Modi said Partition was result of the Congress' wrong policies. "Not a single day has passed when the country has not suffered due to the poison sowed by you," he said.

Had Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel been the first Prime Minister, a part of Kashmir would not have been under control of Pakistan, he said.

The prime minister also said that opposition has the right to protest but not disrupt.